Electron Cooling of RHIC

Conference · Mon May 16 00:00:00 EDT 2005

OSTI ID:861040

Ben-Zvi, I; Barton, D S; Beavis, D B; Blaskiewicz, M; Brennan, J M; Burrill, A; Calaga, R; Cameron, P; Chang, X Y; Connolly, R; Eidelman, Yu I; Fedotov, A V; Fischer, W; Gassner, D M; Hahn, H; Harrison, M; Hershcovitch, A; Hseuh, H -C; Jain, A K; Johnson, P D.J. ; Kayran, D; Kewisch, J; Lambiase, R F; Litvinenko, V; MacKay, W W; Mahler, G J; Malitsky, N; McIntyre, G T; Meng, W; Mirabella, K A.M.; Montag, C; Nehring, T C.N.; Nicoletti, T; Oerter, B; Parzen, G; Pate, D; Rank, J; Rao, T; Roser, T; Russo, T; Scaduto, J; Smith, K; Trbojevic, D; Wang, G; Wei, J; Williams, N W.W.; Wu, K -C; Yakimenko, V; Zaltsman, A; Zhao, Y; Abell, D T; Bruhwiler, D L; Bluem, H; Burger, A; Cole, M D; Favale, A J; Holmes, D; Rathke, J; Schultheiss, T; Todd, A M.M.; Burov, A V; Nagaitsev, S; Delayen, J R; Derbenev, Y S; Funk, L W; Kneisel, P; Merminga, L; Phillips, H L; Preble, J P; Koop, I; Parkhomchuk, V V; Shatunov, Y M; Skrinsky, A N; Koop, I; Parkhomchuk, V V; Shatunov, Y M; Skrinsky, A N; Sekutowicz, J S

We report progress on the R&D program for electron-cooling of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). This electron cooler is designed to cool 100 GeV/nucleon at storage energy using 54 MeV electrons. The electron source will be a superconducting RF photocathode gun. The accelerator will be a superconducting energy recovery linac. The frequency of the accelerator is set at 703.75 MHz. The maximum electron bunch frequency is 9.38 MHz, with bunch charge of 20 nC. The R&D program has the following components: The photoinjector and its photocathode, the superconducting linac cavity, start-to-end beam dynamics with magnetized electrons, electron cooling calculations including benchmarking experiments and development of a large superconducting solenoid. The photoinjector and linac cavity are being incorporated into an energy recovery linac aimed at demonstrating ampere class current at about 20 MeV. A Zeroth Order Design Report is in an advanced draft state, and can be found on the web at http://www.agsrhichome.bnl.gov/eCool/.

• Research Organization: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE - Office of Energy Research (ER)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-98CH10886; AC04-85ER40150
• OSTI ID: 861040
• Report Number(s): JLAB-ACP-05-424; DOE/ER/40150-3651; TRN: US0600235
• Resource Relation: Conference: PAC 2005, 16-20 May 2005, Knoxville, Tennessee
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
ACCELERATORS
BEAM DYNAMICS
DESIGN
ELECTRON COOLING
ELECTRON SOURCES
ELECTRONS
ENERGY RECOVERY
HEAT EXCHANGERS
HEAVY IONS
LINEAR ACCELERATORS
PHOTOCATHODES
SAFETY REPORTS
SOLENOIDS
STORAGE
SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS